Battle to the wire for Calder Trophy

The voting for the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the year should be a close one this season.

Through March 21, Gabriel Landeskog of the Colorado Avalanche was the leading rookie scorer with 21-26-47 totals to go along with a plus-20. New Jersey’s Adam Henrique was second at 15-31-46 and plus-7, followed by Edmonton’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins at 18-27-45 and minus-2.

Landeskog, the No. 2 overall pick at the 2011 NHL entry draft behind Nugent-Hopkins, has impressed his Avalanche teammates with more than just his stats this season.

“He gets it,” his roommate, Erik Johnson, told the Calgary Herald’s Scott Cruickshank. “He knows he’s a rookie … and that the veterans get the first-come-first-served kind of thing. He lets guys like (Jean-Sébastien) Giguère go in the food line first, get off the plane first, get off the bus first – all that stuff that rookies have to abide by. That’s important. That’s how you’re brought up as a rookie.

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